selected ufo cases

Photographic Cases

January, 15, 2004 - Whittlesea, Australia

An employee of this major municipality during his routine work as a traffic engineer took a photograph of a level railway crossing at Beveridge north of Melbourne using a digital camera. When it was downloaded from the camera on to a computer an object appeared in the sky on photograph.
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Source: City of Whittlesea / UFOEvidence.org
ID: 236

Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo

December, 2003 - (Southeast), Vermont, United States

Amatuer photographer from Connecticut was setting up his camera, when something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye. It wasn't like anything he'd seen before. After recovering from the awe in seeing this, he quickly took a picture.
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Source: UFOEvidence.org
ID: 239

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Photo

August, 4, 2003 - Gulf Of Mexico , Louisiana, United States

"Watching clouds on airplane window, notice a large object moving next to airplane almost same speed. I took my camera and take a picture and soon as possible, suddenly moved upward and when out of sight."
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Source: J.S. / UFOEvidence.org
ID: 249

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Photo

July, 26, 2003 - Brzostek, Poland

The unidentified object was first noticed as it flew above the city of Skurowa at an extremely high altitude. Then it changed course and flew over a market. The initial photos were taken while the witness was in his garden.
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Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo

February, 2003 - Weyauwega, Wisconsin, United States

The witness states that she was outside during the evening and happened to notice lights that passed overhead. She says that her impression was the lights were from a balloon, which should be noted, but the photographs that she took seem to depict something other than a hot-air balloon or dirigible.
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Source: UFO Wisconsin Report
ID: 260

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Photo

2003 - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

A clear, close-range video of a saucer-shaped object spinning near a building in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria sometime in 2003. According to B. J. Booth, who eventually acquired and made public the video, it was taken by a woman, who made it available to local authorities in Bulgaria, who confiscated it from her. Luckily she had made a copy of it and placed it in the care of a friend.
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Source: B. J. Booth, UFO Casebook
ID: 1027

Case Type: SummaryReport
Features:
Photo, Rotary/Spin Motion, Silent

2002 - Burnett Heads, Australia

Elaine from Burnett Heads, dropped into the ABC Wide Bay studios (in Austrlia) with a photo she took in winter, 2002. "My husband and I probably took five photos or so over an hour... When we got the photos back one had a round thing in the picture that we couldn't explain!"
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Source: ABC Wide Bay, Queensland, Australia / UFO Casebook
ID: 405

Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo

November, 14, 2001 - Resolute Bay, Canada

"I took several shots of the surrounding airport terrain and when I got back to the office a week later I went through the 100 plus photos. To my surprise picture number 97 had an object in the background."
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Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research
ID: 262

Case Type: RawReport
Features:
Photo

September, 29, 2001 - Budapest, Hungary

"A military pilot recorded a spectacular video of a silver disk object on September 29, 2001. The craft was flying to his left side and then moved very fast past him in the clouds as can be seen in the video."
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Source: Kal Korff / Rense.com
ID: 404

Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo, Military, Pilot/Aircrew

1998 - Yamanlar Mountain Peak, near Karagol , Turkey

"For at least a hundred times," Cem Arat and Mehmet Safak returned to the site at the Yamanlar Mountain Peak near Karagol, where they saw and photographed a strange object in February 1996. This time another UFO showed up. They shot a lot of pictures, but the object was moving so fast, that they caught it on only two.
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Source: Michael Hesemann
ID: 402

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo

August, 6, 1997 - Mexico City, Mexico

In September 1997, [Mexican TV host and UFO researcher] Jaime Maussan received a very special package. Someone had sent him a video tape, in itself nothing remarkable. But when he played the tape on his video recorder, it took his breath away. For the anonymously sent recording showed nothing but points of light and sky - except for a large, metallic, structured, rotating disk, which maneuvered in broad daylight over Mexico City, with a dateline of 6 August 1997.
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Source: Michael Hesemann (2000)
ID: 864

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo

March, 13, 1997 - Phoenix, Arizona, United States

The Phoenix Lights UFO incident is a complex series of events that took place on March 13, 1997 over the states of Nevada, Arizona, and possibly New Mexico, and which would quickly become known as the "Phoenix Lights" sightings. It involved sightings by tens, or perhaps even hundreds, of thousands of witnesses on the ground, and it gave rise to a storm of controversy over what had caused the event.
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October, 27, 1996 - Erpatak, Hungary

Lajos Kosina's girlfriend posed for one snapshot in her parents garden and no one noticed anything unusual in the sky at the time. Upon having the photograph developed some weeks later Lajos was surprised to see a ‘disc-shaped’ object in the sky behind his girlfriend.
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Source: Hungarian UFO Network (HUFON) / Philip Mantle
ID: 237

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Witness Photo

September, 16, 1996 - Valley, Alabama, United States

"A local radio station and newspaper received six different photos from an anonymous source that show a capsule-shape UFO hovering over a farm pasture. In a letter accompanying the photos, the source claims to have taken the remarkable UFO photographs on the 16th of September, 1996, in Valley, Alabama, USA."
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Source: UFO Casebook / ISUR
ID: 403

Case Type: PressReport
Features:
Photo, Animal Reaction

July, 23, 1995 - León, Mexico

On July 23, 1995, the Mendoza family were on a vacation trip driving on the road from Aguascalientes to León, Guanajuato. At 5:20 PM, Mr. Gustavo Mendoza, Mrs. Elena Lemus and their two sons Aldo David and Gustavo Alberto suddenly had an unexpected encounter.
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Source: Santiago Yturria, OVNI Investigaciones MEXICO
ID: 248

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Witness Photo

March, 10, 1993 - Maslin Beach, Australia

When Eric Thomason in Maslin Beach, Australia, looked out across the ocean, he saw - to his great surprise - how an object rose from the waves and started flying towards him. When the object came nearer, Eric took out his camera and started taking photographs.
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Source: Claus Svahn, UFO Sweden
ID: 1045

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Water-Related

November, 12, 1991 - Grangemouth , United Kingdom

From the witness: "We watched it hover for around five minutes. It was then that we noticed that the 'craft' wasn't making any noise. Normally, if it was a helicopter, we would have heard the blades. It then turned around and faced our direction. At the point of the photograph, it was about 200 to 300 feet directly above us. It was then that we heard the light 'pulsing hum' of the object."
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Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Humming, Body Lights

April, 1990 - Petit-Rechain, Belgium

Photo of a triangle UFO taken during the 1989-1990 Belgium UFO wave, during which many people observed large triangle craft. The photo was allegedly made at the beginning of April 1990 (4 or 7 probably). The photographer's girl friend saw the object and gave him notice. Limited details are available about the sighting or the photographer.
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Source: Mark Cashman (temporaldoorway.com)
ID: 1126

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo, Body Lights

November, 11, 1987 - Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States

"Ed Walters was working in his home office when he noticed a light moving outside, partially obscured by the pine tree in his yard. To get a better look Ed went out of the front door, and could see that the light was in fact a glowing bluish-gray craft like none he had seen before... Edwould go on to photograph it many time"
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October, 8, 1981 - Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Hannah Mc Roberts is with her husband and their daughter on the East coast of the Vancouver Island. They take a picture of a mountain. Several days afterwards, when photographa are developed, they notice on one of the photograph that there is a discoidal object in the sky.
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Source: Gordon Creighton / Richard Haines
ID: 241

Case Type: StandardCase
Features:
Photo

January, 1981 - Ajusco National Forest , Mexico

"The source of light revealed itself to be a large, orange, oval-shaped UFO, slowly hovering about 30 metres from his car... The whole car began to shake violently. Diaz got out of the vehicle and took two more photographs before the craft sped up vertically into the sky..." This encounter marked the beginning of what was to develop into a fascinating and long-running contactee case.
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Source: The X Factor, Issue 89
ID: 1091

1980 - Levittown, Puerto Rico, United States

Hundreds of witnesses observed a disc, illuminated by bright lights, flying at a low altitude over a residential quarter of Levittown. When dozens of people called the local police station, a patrol car was sent. Police Officer Sgt. José Cordero arrived just in time to observe the large disc passing directly over him. He was able to take ten photos with his official Polaroid camera.
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Source: Hesemann
ID: 408

Case Type: SummaryReport
Features:
Photo, Group Sighting

March, 16, 1979 - Suonenjoki, Finland

Suddenly Jarmo heard a humming sound obliquely from behind. He turned around. At an altitude of about two meters he saw a bell-shaped mini-UFO. Now he started taking photos of the UFO. It radiated blue light and moved forward descending and ascending. After having taken five photos he started walking toward the UFO. Then the UFO disappeared.
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Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 5, Nov. 1979
ID: 410

April, 19, 1978 - Colfax, Wisconsin, United States

On April 19, 1978, police officer Mark Coltrane was on patrol in the vicinity of Colfax. He then noticed a metalic looking disc raising towards the the sky at a short distance from the parking space. While the object seemed to move towards him, Coltrane picked up his Polaroid camera, came out of the car and snapped some photographs. The object was so close in one of the images that it is possible to notice some details of its lower surface.
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